Don't see it if you're a Microsoft hater

Rating: 6/10 (17 September 2005)

The beginning starts off really well, it's abit like the beginning of HalfLife 2. Big screens everywhere, everyone walking in white clothes, etc. It gets kinda funny when you realize that everything in the first hour of the movie seems to resemble Macintosh. White is the only color (just like with the IPods), and near to the end of the movie the PR guy asks a visitor if he wants 'an apple' (the fruit). The truck in the chase-sequence of the movie is branded 'I Mack'. I have to admit it's funny, if it was intended that way. Explicit advertising for MSN Search and XboX however, proves different. The facility as a Macintosh-like structure which houses evil experiments and huge limitations to the human mind (altho the persons were grown in a few months while indoctrinated, and the main characters are only for years of age, they have the knowledge of a fifteen year old kid and that's all it's ever gonna be) can be regarded as Macintish-bashing (God knows I looked at it that way). Once the 'products' are in LA (the Free World) everything looks like one big Microsoft commercial (and yes, Salty Dog and Puma also invested in this movie). While chattering about the value of human existence they throw Microsoft-like high tech stuff in the mix like 'hey guys, we're empowering your freedom'. Here comes the biggest spoiler: once the main character destroys the facility, all inhabitants see the light and happily escape to explore the Free World. By that time I was looking to the movie like I was watching Nazi propaganda during history class.
Now here comes a quick review: it is a decent action flick with nice camera work and good fx. Reminded me abit of Universal Soldier, but all MS propaganda aside (and if it wasn't too obvious) there's plenty of fun to be had. Big plus: Steve Buscemi as the main character's Partner in Crime. He is one of the few actors who isn't over-acting as if it was a clean and kid-friendly version of Total Recall.
Sorry for Windows-bashing in this review, but I use Linux and this website's probably hosted on an Apache-server (just like most sites out here).